My magpie mind collects pieces in a puzzle." - Eileen Berry, p 10, Bye Bye Blackbird "Magpies were always there in our English garden, pecking around and singling out particular objects. Beautiful black and white birds with loud calls to each other. That is the way this book was put together." - Eileen BerryThis collection of poetry inspires the mind and imagination with memories and images of people, places, and changes over the years. An ins...
The poetry of Eileen Berry distills recollection into its essence, and this present collection reminds us once again of how good she is at this. As she plunges into deepest memory, her images are so powerful, we are helpless not to go with her. We are in the house at Marshside, "always cold especially in summer when no fires were lit, and the air felt thin, " we are there in the dry, overheated desert, we are at the funeral when there was "a s...
Danae, who has grown up in France as the daughter of missionaries, has to move with them to America and finds herself in an unfamiliar and strange place when she goes to school there.